Colca Canon

In a pre-Inca trail warm up we decided to do a 3 day trek in apparently the biggest Canon in the world. To us the Canon looked suspiciously like a valley and its depth was measured from the highest mountain point which made the rest of it quite a bit smaller!

Colca Canon is also the best place in the world to see Condors, Matt went crazy taking photos and was very upset to learn that the rangers feed them to make sure that there are always Condors for the tourists!

The trek was quite good but the severe lack of food supplied by the company saw our group resorting to desperate measures of eating Cactus fruit to stay alive.

I may have slightly chickened out on the final day of trekking and got a mule up the hill. For the record, this was the biggest mistake of my life and I have never been so scared! I got the crazy, competitive mule (which I named Matthew) who tried to overtake every other mule to be at the front. This was not ok as the path was too small for two humans to walk next to one another let alone two mules, especially as there was a nice cliff drop on the other side. Matt (human) was stupidly competitive too and reached the top of the cliff in first place, in front of the other groups who had left an hour before hand, he was a bit too proud of himself.